Road Trip to Middle Island Historical Park in Miramichi
Typhus and scarlet fever broke out among the passengers, and spread rapidly through the ship. Captain Thain made a decision to head for the nearest port (Miramichi) to obtain assistance for the sick and dying passengers.
Early records relate that the Island was known by the Micmac name, “Hiksenogowakun, meaning place for sick people.” It was also named Hospital Island in relation to its use as a quarantine station. A.D. Shirreff called it “Barrataria” when he established a fishing business there in 1827.
Reports of ship arrivals appeared as early as 1826 at the Port of Miramichi. There had been no particular attention paid to the need for a permanent quarantine station but as ships were arriving with passengers suffering from disease, officials called for immediate action. It was decided at a special sessions meeting that a lazaretto was to be immediately erected on Sheldrake Island to accommodate immigrants suffering from contagious diseases. As ships arrived with passengers in need of quarantine facilities, Sheldrake Island was still not ready to accommodate the immigrants and a hurried decision was made by the Magistrates to build the lazaretto on Middle Island.
Patrick Kavanagh - Meet a Miramichier - Canada's Irish Festival on the Miramichi
Canada's Irish festival on the Miramichi is entering it's 31st year! Come experience a true Irish Canadian festival in Canada's Irish Capital! Home of Middle Island Irish Historic site, Miramichi's Irish tradition comes alive on July 17th - 20th 2014.
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Tours Through Time - Mini Movie - Ile Beaubears Island - Miramichi, NB
Visit Beaubears Island, a place where fortunes were made and lives were lost, and learn the role Beaubears Island played in Miramichi and Canada's history.
Ile Beaubears Island is a national historic ship building site and Parks Canada national park. Currently unoccupied, this Island was once home to the 19th century wooden shipbuilding industry. The character tour takes place at 2pm every day in July/August. Once you step off that boat, everybody that you see is from that era.
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Beaubears Island Tour -- Miramichi, New Brunswick
We started our tour at the Interpretive Center at 35 St. Patrick's Drive, Nelson-Miramichi, before heading over to the island in a canoe! On the island you will find characters such as early french fur traders, ship builders and others who inhabited the island for over 100 years! Experience the multicultural history of the Miramichi!
Governor's Mansion Inn - Miramichi, NB
Built over 150 years ago for a timber baron family, the mansion that served as the official residence of New Brunswick’s Lieutenant-Governor is yours to enjoy.
Drift Back to a bygone era when the tallships sailed the seas. Stroll along the riverbank and breathe in the salty Atlantic breeze.
Mayor Adam Lordon - My New Brunswick
As one of Canada's youngest mayors Adam Lordon has a busy life balancing civic engagement with a career as a film producer and director. But the unspoiled, natural spaces of Miramichi keep him grounded and energized - it's one of the reasons he returned home after time spent in Toronto building his career. Follow Adam's journey through the heart of New Brunswick, where beach days, boat parties, and reflections by the river always keep this millenial mayor coming back for more.
Got major love for life by the river? Take Adam up on his trip tips.
City of Miramichi --
Ritchie Wharf Park --
French Fort Cove Nature Park and Over the cove Zip Line --
Miramichi River Boat Tours --
Kouchibouguac National Park --
Priceville Footbridge --
Storeytown Cottages --
Original music: Felix Cartal - Hold Tight
Galway Girl
Lamey Brothers performing Galway Girl at the Miramichi Irish Festival, July 20th 2013
Abandoned Shopping Mall; Haunted
Abandoned shopping mall in Miramichi New Brunswick, where we found disembodied voices, shadows, orbs and more.
The Durty Nellys - Miramichi, NB
The Durty Nellys CD launch party - Chatham Legion - Miramichi, NB - July 20, 2014
New Brunswick
New Brunswick (French: Nouveau-Brunswick; pronounced: [nu.vo.bʁœn.swik], Quebec French pronunciation: [nu.vo.bʁɔn.zwɪk] ( )) is one of Canada's three Maritime provinces and is the only province in the Canadian federation that is constitutionally bilingual (English–French). It was created as a result of the partitioning of the British Colony of Nova Scotia in 1784. Fredericton is the capital and Saint John is the most populous city. Greater Moncton (Moncton, Dieppe, Riverview) forms the province's largest census metropolitan area. In the 2011 nation wide census, Statistics Canada estimated the provincial population to have been 751,171. The majority of the population is English-speaking, but there is also a large Francophone minority (33%), chiefly of Acadian origin.
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Adam Lordon à Miramichi et au parc national Kouchibouguac, Nouveau-Brunswick
Adam Lordon, maire, partage ses lieux favoris du Nouveau-Brunswick au parc national Kouchibouguac. #MonNouveauBrunswick
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Adam Lordon mène une existence bien remplie entre sa vie publique (il est l’un des maires les plus jeunes du pays) et son métier de producteur et réalisateur de films. Mais les grands espaces de la région de Miramichi l’aident à renouveler son énergie et à garder les pieds sur terre. C’est d’ailleurs pour retrouver la nature qu’il est revenu dans la région après avoir vécu à Toronto en début de carrière. Suivez-le dans le centre du Nouveau-Brunswick, où les balades en bateau, les plages et les flâneries riveraines comblent ce jeune maire énergique.
Musique originale: Felix Cartal - Hold Tight
8. Olympic Medals Parody/Brief History of Canadian Olympics - Act 7 - Pagent Contestents Dance
8. Olympic Medals Parody with Brief History of Canadian Olympics - Act 7 - Pagent Contestents Dance at the James M Hill Winter Carnival Variety Show in 2002. Miramichi NB
Illinois in the Gilded Age, 1866-1896: Settlement and Immigration
This video concerning the topic of settlement and immigration, comes from the Illinois in the Gilded Age, 1866-1896 website, which is a creation of Northern Illinois University Libraries' Digital Initiatives Unit: The Illinois in the Gilded Age ( site brings together primary source materials from a number of libraries, museums and archives, including the Newberry Library, the Chicago Historical Society and the Illinois State Library. While the site uses Illinois as its focal point, it also examines larger themes in the history of the United States during the Gilded Age, and can support the study of the period with rich materials details events of national significance.
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New Brunswick: Celtic Cross at York Point New Brunswick to commemorate the Irish Famine Immigrants.
This Celtic Cross echoes a cross to be found on Partridge Island - just off the coast of Saint John, New Brunswick. It commemorates the Irish immigrants who died of Typhus on the island, many of whom are still buried there.
Lyttleton Wars promo
This is an event for teens Grade 6-12 in the Sunny Corner and surrounding areas. It is a Reball tournament (rubber paintballs), where teens will have a chance to compete for prizes as a team. There will be different scenarios such as Elimination, Capture the Flag, and more!
As well we will have different activities to do while you are waiting such as Hantis, Wii, games, or you can watch the competition! There will be food and drinks there. The cost is $2 per person.
This event is put on by Miramichi Valley Bible Camp, Lyttleton Pentecostal Church, and Little Southwest Baptist Church.
Miramichi - Junkie
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Irish Festival
Having fun at the Irish Festival, Miramichi, NB, Canada
Miramichi - Love album of festivals
Miramichi River - Love Album
We live by the Miramichi river which now have over 30 festivals
each summer. The river is full of spirit and lust for water activities. This year started off with thousands of people fishn' stripped bass in the late spring. We just attended the Miramichi Irish festival with new outdoor events at Waterford green. In this video are clips of tubing in Miramichi, Fishermans' Pow-wow, Kayaking, Canoeing, famous sunsets and the community spirit of our river. Some of the photos show the Pumpkin fling in which we blast pumpkins for kids science and fall festival events.
New Brunswick | Wikipedia audio article
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New Brunswick (French: Nouveau-Brunswick; Canadian French pronunciation: [nuvobʁɔnzwɪk] ( listen)) is one of four Atlantic provinces on the east coast of Canada.
The indigenous inhabitants of the land at the time of European colonization were the Mi'kmaq, the Maliseet, and the Passamaquoddy peoples, aligned politically within the Wabanaki Confederacy, many of whom still reside in the area.
Being relatively close to Europe, New Brunswick was among the first places in North America to be explored and settled, starting with the French in the early 1600s, who eventually colonized most of the Maritimes and some of Maine as the colony of Acadia. The area was caught up in the global conflict between the British and French empires, including the 1722–25 Dummer's War against New England. In 1755 what is now New Brunswick was claimed by the British as part of Nova Scotia, to be partitioned off in 1784 following an influx of refugees from the American Revolutionary War. Large groups of English, Scottish, and French people had settled and become the majority population by this time. However, as the Catholic French and indigenous peoples had intermarried heavily, they were essentially a Métis.
In 1785, Saint John became the first incorporated city in what is now Canada. The same year, the University of New Brunswick became one of the first universities in North America. The province prospered in the early 1800s due to logging, shipbuilding, and related activities. The population grew rapidly in part due to waves of Irish immigration to Saint John and Miramichi regions, reaching about a quarter of a million by mid-century. In 1867 New Brunswick was one of four founding provinces of the Canadian Confederation, along with Nova Scotia, Quebec, and Ontario.
After Confederation, wooden shipbuilding and lumbering declined, while protectionist policy disrupted traditional economic patterns with New England. The mid-1900s found New Brunswick to be one of the poorest regions of Canada, but that has been mitigated somewhat by federal transfer payments and improved support for rural areas.
As of 2002, provincial gross domestic product was derived as follows: services (about half being government services and public administration) 43%; construction, manufacturing, and utilities 24%; real estate rental 12%; wholesale and retail 11%; agriculture, forestry, fishing, hunting, mining, oil and gas extraction 5%; transportation and warehousing 5%.According to the Constitution of Canada New Brunswick is the only bilingual province. About two thirds of the population declare themselves anglophones and a third francophones. One third of the overall population describe themselves as bilingual. Atypically for Canada, only about half of the population lives in urban areas, mostly in Greater Moncton, Greater Saint John and the capital Fredericton.
Unlike the other Maritime provinces, New Brunswick's terrain is mostly forested uplands, with much of the land further from the coast, giving it a harsher climate. New Brunswick is 83% forested, and less densely-populated than the rest of the Maritimes.
Tourism accounts for about 9% of the labour force directly or indirectly. Popular destinations include Fundy National Park and the Hopewell Rocks, Kouchibouguac National Park, and Roosevelt Campobello International Park. In 2013, 64 cruise ships called at Port of Saint John carrying on average 2600 passengers each.
The Great Fire of Miramichi and Maine in 1825: One of The Largest Forest Fire in North America
The great fire of Miramichi and Maine in 1825. Was the first large fire in the new world and one of the most devastating forest fire in North America. Unknown number of people and wildlife lost.
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